Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 07:27 +, Stroller wrote: On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted.

[gentoo-user] Re: NIC setup? slow transfer speed

2006-01-31 Thread Remy Blank
Stuart Howard wrote: OK well I give up I did, too... Transfer 39Mb file from gentoo - XP share using winXP copy trans time =5 mins [gentoo smb directory to XP share dir ie. XP shared dir Not mounted] I have a similar situation here, but with an additional interesting observation. If I copy

[gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the next one. Sometime I miss reading a message because 2 have been deleted instead of 1. This happens quite often, also

[gentoo-user] Autofs problem 4.1.3-r4

2006-01-31 Thread Paulo J. Matos
Hi all, having a terrible problem with autofs which I already had a couple months ago (wierd isn't fixed). When I start autofs I get: /home/usr/bin/automount: option -t requires a numeric argument, got, intr, nosuid,rsize=8192,wsize=8192. I was able to solve it at some point but now I can't

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Javier Payno
Hi Have you read this thread? [gentoo-user] Duplicate mouse clicks?? El Martes, 31 de Enero de 2006 11:20, Paul escribió: Hi all, I am using kmail version 1.8.3 using KDE 3.4.3 and am experiencing multiple deletes. I click on the waste bin icon to delete the current read message and read the

[gentoo-user] Re: Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread reader
Marco Lazzeri [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I'm sure enough I'm missing something, but I don't know where else I should look at. Any hints? You didn't mention checking /etc/conf.d/domainname. The first few lines in a stock one have this: # /etc/conf.d/domainname # When setting up

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load GLcore' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it. What does your xorg.conf look like now? Benno --

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread ralpklm
On 1/31/06, Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I tried what you said, and now I'm get to a point where it fails due to circular references between libglx and libGLcore. Which are those? Do you have a 'Load GLcore' in your xorg.conf? If so, then remove it.

Re: [gentoo-user] dead USB card?

2006-01-31 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Sun, 29 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/28/06, Jorge Almeida [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sat, 28 Jan 2006, Richard Fish wrote: It looks like the ohci and ehci drivers are fighting over the card. You don't need both, so I would disable ohci in your kernel configuration and see if that

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad memory :) I have heard the same thing. I have

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I've heard of government departments filing down the old HD's into little pieces, then mixing them in cement for the next building project. Could be an urban legend though. All of the above is subject to my own bad

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Schleimer, Ben
I too am interested in knowing how to do this. Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search domains in resolv.conf if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. Thanks! Ben Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Schleimer, Ben
I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data but couldn't the data be cached elsewhere on the drive, especially with journalling filesystems?? Cheers, Ben Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Dale
Iain Buchanan wrote: On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 06:56 -0600, Dale wrote: Iain Buchanan wrote: I have heard the same thing. I have watched some of them on TV get data off some unbelievable drives. Some had bent platters, serious scratches, been formatted a few times etc etc etc, After

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you shred or wipe the data (run random data over the disk many times, with a bit of magic formulas thrown in) then apparently the FBI / CIA / KGB / WTFC has a magnetic data recovery tool to see what bit was written before the current bit

[gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread James
Benno Schulenberg benno.schulenberg at gmail.com writes: James wrote: I think my 'delete' key has quite working on a portable. Any programs or tricks for diagnosis the problem ? Switch to a VT and run 'showkey' to see whether it still produces scan codes. showkey shows press and

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
Someone will know (I don't) what the density is on a modern platter. The highest density platters today are close to 100Gbit / square inch. So no, you won't see the bits with the naked eye! -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Javier Payno [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Ho wait my mouse wheel isn't working now - back to the drawing board Try ExplorerPS/2. -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem

2006-01-31 Thread Joksim
Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still appears to be SOMETIMES double clicking. I have noticed that on boot I get an error module mousedev not

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Trenton Adams
On 1/31/06, Schleimer, Ben [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I too am interested in knowing how to do this. Theres no obvious place in /etc/config.d/net(work?) to set new search domains in resolv.conf if anyone can provide info on this, I'd appricate it. Thanks! Ben Debugging is twice as

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Were did you hear that? I've got a hard time believing that - as long as a format is somewhat like dd if=/dev/zero of=/dev/hda. Lucky for me I don't have any interest in actually doing this, but I got in

Re: [gentoo-user] Hard setting additional search domains into DHCP-overwrited resolv.conf

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, Trenton Adams [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Apparently Mr Kernighan likes to use falacies! :) Poor Mr. Kernighan. Um, you _do_ know who 'Mr Kernighan' is, right? -Richard -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Stroller wrote: On 31 Jan 2006, at 01:03, Grant wrote: Hello! I've heard that data can be recovered from a formatted hard disk. Yes, it's fairly trivial, for someone who cares enough to try, to retrieve data from a disk that's merely been formatted. Oh, is it? Please explain how!

Re: [gentoo-user] uname -a question

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/30/06, Jerry Eastmanhouser [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I thought that this was in the top 4 lines of the kernel Makefile. Standard location is going to be /usr/src/linux/Makefile VERSION = 2 PATCHLEVEL = 4 This is still true with the 2.6 kernel, except that there is now also a

Re: [gentoo-user] kmail delete problem

2006-01-31 Thread Paul
On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 16:35, Richard Fish wrote: On 1/31/06, Paul [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tuesday 31 Jan 2006 12:49, Dale wrote: I raised the original mouse problem which I thought was resolved by changing the mouse protocal to ExplorerPS/2. Although the mouse works OK It still

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Uwe Thiem
On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a 0 with a 0 will lead to another

Re: [gentoo-user] What mobile phone / PDA combination unit that syncs with Linux should I get?

2006-01-31 Thread michael
Hey, when you find out, let me know as well. I think our only hope is to make our own. There is (I think) at least one open source cellphone project going on. Michael On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, David Dorward wrote: The contract on my mobile phone is coming up for renewal soon, so I'm shortly

[gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread James
Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as it'd make this purchase more

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: OT: Dead key on keyboard diagnostic?

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
James wrote: showkey shows press and release of ascii '83' so I guess it working fine. My second delete key works fine, but is in an awkward location on the keyboard. On my keyboard the normal Delete key produces keycode 111, and the Del key on the numeric pad produces keycode 53. Are you

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg-x11-7.0.0-r1: Can't load glx or via_drv module

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If I add the Load GLcore I get a undefined symbol for __glX11(something I can't rember exactly, but it is a symbol in libglx.so) Without (or without) Load GLcore I get a failure on Load glx from and undefined symbol glCallList which is provided in libGLcore.so

Re: [gentoo-user] [OT] Kmail empty replies

2006-01-31 Thread Benno Schulenberg
A. R. wrote: I've been having some problems with kmail. When I reply to a message, the message is delivered blank: The original message and my response are both blank. What exactly do you mean with the message is delivered blank? If you configure KMail and set the Default send method as

Re: [gentoo-user] PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Johansson
On Monday 30 January 2006 22.35, Ryan Tandy wrote: Dan Johansson wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 15.35, ellotheth rimmwen wrote: On 1/29/06, Dan Johansson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fatal error: Call to undefined function ctype_print() in

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread John Jolet
On Jan 31, 2006, at 11:58 AM, James wrote: Hello, We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on

[gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext

2006-01-31 Thread daniel
I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and upon doing a: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got this: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world Calculating world dependencies ...done! emerge (1 of

Re: [gentoo-user] Fresh install fails on Locale-gettext

2006-01-31 Thread Steven Susbauer
Try a revdep-rebuild and see if it wants to build something. On Tue, 31 Jan 2006, daniel wrote: I just finished doing a reinstall of my amd64 machine (using x86 though) and upon doing a: # emerge --update --deep --newuse world (I'd edited my use flags and done an emerge sync) I got this:

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE starts and runs slowly

2006-01-31 Thread Bryce Verdier
Also, make sure that net.lo is turned on. I had a problem a while ago with KDE taking forever to boot interact because net.lo wasn't starting in the init scripts. I guess its required. Just something to try and help out. bryce Richard Fish wrote: On 1/29/06, Korondi Márk [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Re: AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread James
John Jolet john at jolet.net writes: We'll I'm finally taking the plunge and building a high performance 64 bit AMD system. Oh, but the company paying for it insist upon windozXP 64bit, just in case Gentoo does not work. I'm really surprise some vendor is not listed on gentoo.org, as

[gentoo-user] DRI, modular X and the intel 855GM video card

2006-01-31 Thread Andrew Frink
Hey all i have a intel 855GM using the i810 driver in modualr X, just recently hardware acceleration stopped working. Not really sure why.here's my glx-info output.name of display: : 0.0libGL warning: 3D driver returned no fbconfigs.libGL error: InitDriver failedlibGL error: reverting to (slow)

[gentoo-user] Re: Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread Mick
maxim wexler wrote: --- Mick [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: maxim wexler wrote: [snip...] I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Job 23 queued on 'deskjet' by 'root'. Why are you running it as root? That was a test page run from localhost631 which requires that I be root. Here's the

[gentoo-user] Re: PHP upgrade breaks Squirrelmail

2006-01-31 Thread Harm Geerts
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:11, Dan Johansson wrote: I'm now going to look into the ebuild to see why PHP5 builds the cli and apache2 parts differently. Could it be you forgot to restart apache after rebuilding php? The configure part for each SAPI is a generic function and doesn't care about

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread Richard Fish
On 1/31/06, C. Beamer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an output plugin in the 'Configure amaroK -- Engine' screen, or did you let it auto detect? Mine is set to auto detect.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: CUPS -- fails better!

2006-01-31 Thread Nick Rout
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 00:36:04 +0100 Harm Geerts wrote: On Monday 30 January 2006 23:00, maxim wexler wrote: I [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] Started backend /usr/lib/cups/backend/parallel (PID 5870) for job 23. E [30/Jan/2006:14:52:31 -0700] PID 5869 stopped with status 3! I

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Grant
I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. The data will still be recoverable (with the right hardware). That is so because overwriting a 0 with a 0 will lead to another level of manetic field than overwriting a 1

[gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Cláudio Henrique
I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm having trouble updating my system. how can I solve this? localhost ~ # emerge -uDav world

[gentoo-user] Re: [kde Q] Gack too man shares showing up on desktop

2006-01-31 Thread Harry Putnam
Benno Schulenberg [EMAIL PROTECTED] writes: I've cleared all boxes at kcontrol/Desktop/Behavior/Device icons Also the top one, Show device icons, after which the whole list greys out? Egad, don't know why I couldn't see that one until you pointed it out. That cleared the slate... thanks.

Re: [gentoo-user] AMD 64 bit system selections

2006-01-31 Thread Bob Sanders
On Tue, 31 Jan 2006 17:58:53 + (UTC) James [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: What's the best 64 bit processor choice for performance for Gentoo? Dual-core? Perhaps you should ask what the best price performance/watt in the cpu range? Generally it's best to figure out your needs and then

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Iain Buchanan
On Tue, 2006-01-31 at 17:39 -0800, Grant wrote: Almost everyone seems to agree that recovering data from a formatted drive is possible. What is the process by which this is done? I've read here that: 1. The space between tracks contains historical data information. and: 2. There is

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread Mike Owen
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: (dependency required by media-gfx/gimp-2.2.8-r1 [ebuild]) Upgrade to gimp-2.2.9, which has support for Modular X. Mike -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] CD and DVD indexing tool

2006-01-31 Thread Tom Eastman
Hey all, I'm looking for a utility that could be used for indexing the contents of the dozens and hundreds of CDRs and DVDRs that I've amassed over the years. I was kind of thinking just a heap of text files with the contents of 'tree' or 'ls -R' or something, but it would be nicer if there was

Re: [gentoo-user] amarok sound engine

2006-01-31 Thread Martins Steinbergs
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 20:42, C. Beamer wrote: Martins Steinbergs wrote: Hi, Hi, I don't know if you've solved this issue. I'm using the Xine engine with amaroK (1.3.6) and it works fine. Did you choose an output plugin in the 'Configure amaroK -- Engine' screen, or did you let it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: X USE flag - what does it do?

2006-01-31 Thread Walter Dnes
On Mon, Jan 30, 2006 at 10:54:27PM +, Neil Bothwick wrote No, it means the flag setting changed since the last install. The newer portage also has a % to show the flag has been added to the ebuild since the last install. You are thinking of use.defaults, which appear to have been phased

Re: [gentoo-user] Electricsheep (General Question)

2006-01-31 Thread Ian
Thanks!I got it working. I just left it on overnight. :)Thanks again!On 1/31/06, Steven Susbauer [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:It takes a lot longer than 8-10 minutes, I don't think their download server is very quick, or something like that. Wait a while and it willactually start working (and if you

[gentoo-user] Abiword 2.2.11 crashes

2006-01-31 Thread Adrian
Greetings all; Suddenly I've stated having a problem with Abiword 2.2.11 -- every time I cut or copy text it crashes. This version was working fine. I checked bugs.gentoo and couldn't find a bug report regarding this situation. I wonder if it has anything to do with the programs which I

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge update world and modular xorg-x11

2006-01-31 Thread ralpklm
On 1/31/06, Cláudio Henrique [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I have installed modular xorg-x11 following the guides in gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/desktop/x/x11/modular-x-howto.xml) and in gentoo-wiki (http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Modular_Xorg) and now I'm having trouble updating my system.

Re: [gentoo-user] {OT} Recovering data from a formatted hard disk

2006-01-31 Thread Alexander Skwar
Uwe Thiem wrote: On 31 January 2006 15:19, Schleimer, Ben wrote: I understand that writing zeros over the file should permenately delete the data Don't believe people telling that. Why not? I would believe those people. The data will still be recoverable Will it? Why is it, that there

Re: [gentoo-user] app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 unmask problem

2006-01-31 Thread Joksim
Holly Bostick wrote: Joksim schreef: Hello, I'm having hard time unmasking and installing app-arch/rpm-4.2.1. I have tried with: package.keywords and with package.unmask =app-arch/rpm-4.2.1 app-arch/rpm ~86 but with no luck. What am I doing wrong. RPM-4.2.1 is neither package masked nor